Earlier in his recruitment process Brooklyn (NY) Xaverian running back Laray Smith was high on the West Virginia Mountaineers. After a few months it appeared that both sides had cooled on each other. While both WVU and Smith remained interested in one another, different dynamics of the recruiting process pulled each party in other directions.

Then in the past few weeks WVU has reached back out to the explosive back and invited Smith and his family to see WVU take on Baylor in its first ever Big 12 conference game, in Morgantown. Smith knew he had an opportunity to see a good game, he didn't know he was going to see such a historic offensive showing.